Little filter sounds preferable to the big filter

People dying because they blindly followed the advice of an LLM is kind of like natural selection.

I assume the selection will become more rapid as the consequences of cognitive offloading begin to manifest.

It’s not possible the way they’re trying to do it, no question.

You could make a flimsy argument that it would be possible in some way, but the way that they’ve chosen to approach it is 100% not viable.

You’re right

Yeah, it’s been morally justifiable for an extremely long time, but the masses are only now beginning to see through the wool.

I think the oligarchs may have overplayed their hand.

Ohhhh shit, ok, i don’t believe we’ve done that since before the revolutionary war

… doesn’t really seem like a wise way to get loyal soldiers, but perhaps we’re due for another revolution

Isn’t that how we usually do it?

If my life was so hollow that I couldn’t enjoy art maybe I’d also become an AI defender. Who needs a full brain when you’ve got an empty heart?

Homie, you’re the one who cannot grasp the definition of several extremely common and well defined words (or their accompanying concepts)

You are showing your ass

Actually it wouldn’t be able to understand shit because it’s an inanimate object.

I’m not angry, you’re projecting, lmao

The emotion I’m experiencing in all of these AI threads is disbelief and disappointment.

It’s not a baby anymore once you’ve fed all of the training data into it. It’s not really a great metaphor.

All of the words that you’re saying are “vague” are actually extremely well defined. Check it out. https://www.merriam-webster.com/

Ok, this is actually just making me depressed at this point.

You really only see your own autonomy as equivalent with a computer programs?

Autonomous actually means “having the right of power or self government” which is not true of AI, or “undertaken or carried on without outside control”, which is also not true of AI.

Power on your computer, load up your fully trained AI, and then wait for it to act without your direction. Did anything happen? No, because a human filled with information and experiences and feelings is actually WAY different than a computer program filled with data.

For example, I did not prompt you to come on Lemmy and vocally fellate technofascists and their fuckware, you chose to do that of your own volition. That’s autonomy. The computer program won’t do that unless you direct it to.

Edit - Just to be clear, because you’re not the only one pointing to “agents” as a sign of autonomy/intelligence/sentience -> An agent is literally a computer program that you prompt, which then talks to an LLM, and then does what the LLM tells it to do. It’s not acting autonomously, it’s following directions from the next-word-predictor machine, and those directions are built off of your original prompt.

I mostly agree with you, but AI cannot “act autonomously”. You prompt it, and it acts based off of that prompt.

Think of it like doing the laundry: I load my clothes in and “prompt” the washing machine to do my laundry.

When the washing machine switches from the rinse cycle to the spin cycle, it’s not acting autonomously, it’s continuing to execute my prompt.

Is AI capable of doing something you didn’t expect it to do? Yes. Does that mean it’s acting autonomously? No.

I would also argue that the “power” of LLMs is vastly overstated. A large part of that is for the exact reason you say tho, people with zero knowledge or skill are playing with fire; And when they get burned they blame the machinery, not the operator.

They’re not escaping users control, they’re fucking computer programs.

People are using them irresponsibly.

If you accidentally run someone over in your car, the car didn’t “escape your control”, you just did a shitty job of controlling the car.

It’s not the same thing.

(Fuck “AI” btw)